FREEPER PILOTS: CBS Hit Job on General Aviation

Tom Norton Editor: Southern Aviator Magazine ^ | 1/15/2004 | Phil Boyer, President AOPA

[Tijeras_Slim]

I was alerted to this by Tom Norton, editor of the Southern Aviator Magazine, and agreed to post it. I know how much FReepers like letting CBS know what we think of them. If someone could post email links to CBS (left over from FReeping the Reagan "movie") it would be appreciated.

[Former Proud Canadian]

bump for antikev

[Tijeras_Slim]

Do you have a pilot's ping list?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Know any FReeper pilots or aviation fans?

[Starrgaizr]

I am an AOPA member, and the attacks on single-engine planes like I fly are usually preposterous. But there are some serious business jets where I fly. More important than those, however, are the foreign pilots who steer 747s around the U.S. every day.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Thanks for the bump.

[Aeronaut]

Bump. CBS is no bastion of honesty or fair reporting. The problem is the sheeple who believe their twaddle.

[Aeronaut]

I will start a pilot's ping list. Give me a hollar if you want on.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Thanks for the bump. Between trial lawyers and the media, things are looking grim.

[theDentist]

Well, "little planes" are simply toys for the rich, and the pilots are often the rich themselves. {/sarcasm}

[C210N]

As a pilot and AOPA member up here in MA, I see every airport I visit since 9/11 with security improvements: security fences, electricly coded gates, security-minded airport personell, etc. Then there is the extreme: BED, a nearby airport, where the security measures have gone so "extreme" that some based pilots have fled - e.g. where an aircraft cannot be left untended without a special propellor lock, even for an instant.

Thanks for this heads-up... as I havn't watched C-BS for years now.

[FireTrack]

Include me please.

Thanks!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Thanks for the bump

[razorback-bert]

a new MOA (Military Operations Area) restriction would effectively block all non-military flight from Albuquerque through Roswell, down to Artesia and Carlsbad in New Mexico, creating 3,200 square miles of no-fly zone.

First I have heard about this.

[Aeronaut]

Done.

[Pukin Dog]

Thanks for the ping.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Same here.

[Pukin Dog]

Count me in, please.

[Aeronaut]

You are in.

[Elle Bee]

please include me from the southernmost airfield

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